Quotes About Inaction

We are not only responsible for what we do but also for what we do not do.

The truth is that those at the top of British football do not care about getting rid of racism, they just don't want to hear it or see it.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

If we're still talking about the same thing 40 or 50 years later, then that means we're not doing anything about it.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.

Sometimes it's what you don't do that makes you who you are.

Jedynym koniecznym warunkiem triumfu z?a jest to, ?eby dobrzy ludzie nie robili nic. (Edmund Burke)

It's good that they've seen it, but how can I be satisfied after working for two years making a film which I hope will make a difference, when the government sees the film and does nothing about it?

All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering….

Not responding is a response.

People who know but do not act do evil too. I don't know if I would call them evil but they're certainly not thinking about heaven.

A balancing act of equally unlikely options was the only answer that the city and the nation gave to the requests of these poor people. This juggling of options—in this instance, countering school-funding efforts with the need for preschool—does no good if neither of these options is to be enacted anyway and if the act of balancing only serves to guarantee our permanent inaction in both areas.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.

If I'd been someone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.

Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.

I think about all of the things I've done, Oskar. And all of the things I didn't do. The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

Razmišljam o svemu što sam u?inila.I o svemu što nisam u?inila.Pogreške su za mene mrtve.Ali ne mogu povu?i stvari koje nikada nisam u?inila.

The instinctive preference was to read rather than to act. No wonder our actual lives were more or less a shambles

James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.

The eyes of our rulers have been closed, and a lethargy has seized almost every member. I fear a fatal security has taken possession of them. Whilst the building is in flames, they tremble at the expense of water to quench it.

You cannot be, I know, nor do I wish to see you, an inactive spectator....We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them